Black Ibis (Zwarte Ibis)

Black Ibis (Zwarte Ibis)

Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis) is a short poetic film portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.

Year: 2024

Runtime: 18:20

Language: Dutch / Eng subs

Country: Netherlands

Premiere: Grenada

Emma-Lee Amponsah

Director

EUphoria

  • Nohely Koeyers

    Writer

  • Smita 'James' Gayadin

    Writer

  • Emma-Lee Amponsah

    Writer

  • Chris 'Ci' Rickets

    Writer

  • Alexine Gabriela

    Writer

  • Black Speaks Back

    Producer

Emma-Lee Amponsah (PhD) is a creative producer, writer, thinker, and researcher of culture and media. Her work focuses on themes including Blackness, memory, technology, and ontology. As a founding member of the Belgo-Dutch grassroots platform and media collective Black Speaks Back (BsB), Amponsah has been involved in various impactful audiovisual projects exploring Blackness in Belgium and The Netherlands. Amponsah was the initiator and producer of the world's first Afrofuturistic musical EUphoria (2028). Black Ibis (2024) marks her directorial debut.